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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Bad grammar',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			My story of choice was <a href="https://eapoe.org/works/tales/thearta.htm">The Tell-Tale Heart</a>.
			It was in interesting tale, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, but I&apos;m utterly confused as to why it would be classified as a tale of mystery.
			From the beginning, you&apos;re told who the murderer is.
			The unnamed narrator recounts his actions and thoughts from the murder, just prior, and just after (Poe, 1843).
			<strong>The real mystery is why this story would every be classified as a mystery story.</strong>
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;d say this tale, without changes, would be more a part of the broader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction#Crime">crime genre</a>.
			It doesn&apos;t really focus on solving the crime, as the criminal is known from the onset (Poe, 1843), but it does focus on the criminal&apos;s thoughts and motives.
			The mystery genre is a subgenre of the crime genre, but The Tell-Tale Heart doesn&apos;t have what it takes to fit into this subgenre.
		</p>
		<p>
			Since this isn&apos;t a mystery tale, it doesn&apos;t make sense to talk about how to change it to make it into a non-mystery tale.
			Instead, let&apos;s do the reverse.
			What would we change to turn this story <strong>*into*</strong> a mystery tale?
			The first thing to change would be to not blow the case wide open in the second paragraph.
			From then on, the details leading up to the murder are discussed, so we&apos;d need to tell the story from a different perspective and view it from a different time frame; one that takes place after, not during, the murder.
			For this, we&apos;d either use a disembodied narrator or perhaps one of the police officers investigating the crime.
			The case is still pretty cut and dry though.
			You&apos;d need to add more suspects.
			For that matter, you&apos;d need to know what the crime was early on.
			In The Tell-Tale heart, apart from the murderer themself, no one knows a crime has even been committed until the crime was already solved (Poe, 1843).
		</p>
		<p>
			So to start, you&apos;d need the crime to be known.
			Perhaps the victim has been missing for days, and their body was finally discovered and dug up out of the floor.
			Next, you&apos;d need suspects.
			We&apos;re only told of one person with motive (albeit a stupid one) and access to the estate, so more characters with access to the property and probably better motives would need to be added.
			In fact, with characters with better motives, few would suspect the real murderer, so we could have quite the mystery on our hands.
			The murderer actually loved the victim, it&apos;s just that the murderer didn&apos;t like the look of victim&apos;s eye (Poe, 1843), which from the description, likely had a cataract.
			What kind of motive for murder is that!?
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Poe, E. A. (1843, January). Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - The Tell-Tale Heart (Text-02). Retrieved from <a href="https://eapoe.org/works/tales/thearta.htm"><code>https://eapoe.org/works/tales/thearta.htm</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		We&apos;re supposed to read two specific chapters from Huckleberry Finn this week.
		I tried to read them today, but I couldn&apos;t get through the first chapter because of the horrid grammar.
		I mean, it&apos;s told from the point of view of a seemingly-uneducated child.
		The bad grammar is a part of what sets the scene and is supposed to draw you into the story.
		It&apos;s a bit difficult to be drawn in though when you&apos;re having difficulty with the sentence structure though.
		I&apos;d better get those chapters finished tomorrow though before work.
		I have a schedule to keep.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="EUGLUG">
	<h2>The $a[EUGLUG]</h2>
	<p>
		It seems in two weeks, we&apos;re likely not going to have a meeting.
		The owner of the garage we meet in will be away, so we won&apos;t have somewhere to meet.
		If my mother wasn&apos;t storing stuff in my living room, the place would be usable and I&apos;d offer to host the meeting at my place.
	</p>
</section>
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